Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crisis threatened. Foreigners could not own homes or land. Those who worked for the government were eligible for subsidized housing. Those employed in the private sector were forced to find lodgings on the open market, which often meant living in slums, since rents were exorbitant. In time, a housing apartheid grew, with some of the Palestinian neighborhoods dubbed "Gaza" and "the West Bank." Even the Kuwaiti-born children of foreigners could be expelled from the only country they had ever known if they were unable to find work on their own account when they reached...
When Hendrik Verwoerd Jr. was a young man, his father served as South Africa's Prime Minister. During his years in office -- 1958 to 1966 -- Hendrik Sr. sought to implement "grand apartheid," a system intended to preserve a mighty white nation occupying 87% of the land, with blacks living in small "homelands" in the rest of the territory...
...religious and intellectual circles, debates about the past are as vigorous as discussions about the future. At a conference last month, Dutch Reformed Church theologian Willie Jonker declared apartheid a sin and confessed his guilt as well as that of the church and "the Afrikaner people as a whole." Although his declaration caused an uproar, his statements echoed a historic resolution adopted two weeks earlier at a church synod. Former President P.W. Botha briefly emerged from seclusion to express his anger. "The Afrikaners, my people, were not oppressors," he insisted. But progressive Afrikaners are advocating that the government take...
...steered clear of confessions, apologies and reparations. Some of his advisers believe, however, that some sort of official apology might be forthcoming in the final stages of negotiations. The most outspoken comment from De Klerk's circle has come from Deputy Foreign Minister Leon Wessels. Last August he described apartheid as "a dreadful mistake" that did not take "human factors" into account. "An apology is on the minds of many Afrikaners," Wessels says, "but not on the mind of the government...
...antiapartheid movement has taken note of Afrikaner angst, but is not necessarily impressed. "No one in a high position has actually said they are sorry for all the hurt they have caused to victims of apartheid," says Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "We blacks, for our part, are ready to forgive. But the other party must be contrite and ready to do reparation. Your contrition will be demonstrated by your willingness to make amends. We cannot just say, 'Let bygones be bygones...